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. 2012 Dec 13;7(12):e51829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051829

Table 2. Effect of Hairpin Structure on the Binding Affinity of Dicer-dsRBD for dsRNA.

RNA Construct Dissociation Constant(Kd, µM) Hill Coefficient(n)
ds16-tetra-stable 9.1±0.1 2.9±0.1
ds16-tetra-U 10.7±0.1 4.6±0.3
ds16-hexa-U 8.9±0.1 3.8±0.1
ds16-octa-U 4.7±0.1 2.8±0.1
ds16-flank 4.6±0.1 2.5±0.1